Felix Cherniavsky - Depictions of Maud Allan's "Vision of Salome"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Depictions of Maud Allan's "Vision of Salome"

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Jan 29 1907 1 ) . C A CASE OF BELATED CONSCIENCE , The great moral uprising on the part or those who control the ultimate death nies of the Metropolitan Opera House gainst the further representation of RICHARD STRAUSS'S ** Salome to be a case of belated conscience . It wouid seem that a prompter sense of the evil would have been feirer to the manager , his artists , and the public , Many of those who are now protesting were present at the dress rehearsal when the work was heard and seen exactly as it was to be presented to the public . It had been in preparation for months before . It had been pro duced in Germany more than a year ago , and many accounts of it were ac . cessible here several languages . WILDK's play , which the composer has followed almost word for , word , had long been in print , and nothing that happens in the muste lo absent from the dramatio text . As to STRAUss's musie , It would pre sumably be admitted that in itself it is neither moral nor immoral . It violates & good many old rules of harmony and counterpoint , but we doubt that had much influence with the Directors in inducing them to prohibit it . It is true that the author has put one very dis agreeable episode into his play that STRAUSS has made much of in his mu sical setting , and that has caused the property man some labor with papier mache . Artists for three or four hun dred years have also been consider ably occupied with this detail and have made much of JOIN the Baptist's decollation , " as may be seen in any gallery . We are not upholding the valldity of this particular detall from the artistic point of view . But every body knew that it was coming . And , at any rate , the young German com poser cannot be charged with mak ing vice attractive " in his opera . There are a good many operas on the lists of the Metropolitan Opera House ( to say nothing of the Manhattan ) that are quite as much open to this reproach as Salome . " We tremble to think what the result may be if the newly aroused conscience of the Directors of the Opera House and Realty Company , seeking what It may devour , should be turned in this direction . Not only Salorne , but a good many other musical mag terpieces would be put upon the Index . But the fact is that in the long run these things reach their own level . Sudden uprisings , crusades , and com mittee meetings are not the best means of accomplishing this end . If this Salome " containg elements that dis Kust and estrange , the public will let It drop 2 soon as the sensation is over .